When creating the AMPAR machine translation system (from English into Russian), and the NERPA machine translation system (from German into Russian) at the USSR Translation Centre, unified software oriented to commercial operation has been developed [1],[2]. Much effort has been made to facilitate the system linguists' work in the course of interaction with the machine translation system through...

Whereas in the United States work in machine translation (MT) has only recently been reinstated as a 'respectable' natural language processing (NLP) application, it has long been considered a worthwhile and interesting topic for research and development in both Europe and Japan. In terms of number of projects in one sub-field of computational linguistics, MT is currently perhaps the most import...

Much of an instructor’s time is spent on the management and grading of homework. We present the Machine Translation Leaderboard, a platform for managing, displaying, and automatically grading homework assignments. It runs on Google App Engine, which provides hosting and usermanagement services. Among its many features are the ability to easily define new assignments, manage submission histories...

I Translation is of immediate importance for multilingual countries (Canada, India, Switzerland, . . . ), international institutions (United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, . . . ), multinational or exporting companies. I The European Union used to have 11 official languages, since May 1, 2004 it has 20. All federal laws and other documents have to be translated ...

In 1965 the United States Academy of Science cemmissoned a study of he state of the art in Machine Translation, whose findings were published the following year and become popularly known as the ALPAC report. In essence, ALPAC argued that there was insufficient scientific basis in natural langauge processing to perform reliable machine t~anslatinn, and the large expensive computers of the time ...

The emergence of social media caused a drastic change in the way information is published. In contrast to previous eras in which the written word was more dominated by formal registers, the possibility for people with different backgrounds to publish information has caused non-standard style, formality, content, genre and topic to be present in written documents. One source of such data are pos...